The founders of the Vermont-based ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s recently said in an interview that they would like to see ice cream choices containing marijuana. (Published Wednesday, March 4, 2015)

Recent comments from the founders of the ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's about legalized marijuana are sparking discussion in Vermont, a state where lawmakers in both chambers of the state legislature have introduced recreational marijuana legalization bills.

The pair made it clear in that interview that they were not speaking for the company that bears their first names. New England Cable News reached out to an official spokesman for Ben & Jerry's for more on the co-founders' remarks.

"The truth is there's nothing going on from this end, discussion nor development, in regards to a cannabis concoction," Sean Greenwood of Ben & Jerry's said in an email to necn. "We have our hands full with our new Cookie Cores flavors, our new Tonight Dough flavor with Jimmy Fallon, and our upcoming climate activism tour."

On the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, the idea of weed ice cream drew a mixed reaction.

Sen. David Zuckerman, P/D-Chittenden County, is a farmer and legislator behind the bill in the Vermont Senate to legalize marijuana. When it comes to edible forms of the drug, Zuckerman acknowledged Colorado has had problems, so he'd want tighter constraints here.

He said if a product such as marijuana ice cream were to be manufactured, it would only be sold in state-authorized marijuana stores and lounges.

"I do think that's an expanding area, and one reason we'd want to regulate [marijuana] well," Zuckerman said of edibles. "So that we make sure they're less interesting to kids [and] they're single-serving packages, so adults who consume use the right amount."